JvdW acknowledges contributions
from former AGBU students having prepared some part of these notes, and further
Larry Schaeffer and the late Brian Kennedy (both Univ. of Guelph) whose various courses have often been used as the basis of
these notes, as well as Brian Kinghorn, whose original
course notes were used for many animal model examples. Sang Hong Lee is
acknowledged for his summary of the AI REML algorithm and Mike Goddard for
allowing to use his notes of the 2003 Armidale Animal Breeding Summer Course on
Bayesian estimation.